On Sunday, at Sacred Heart in The Folly, Waterford, four coffins were received with a guard of honour from Johnville FC. The mill hint said a house fire. Irish reporting is harder: a petrol-bomb attack on Tuesday 13 October, in Birchwood. Philip English, his wife Kim (née Companjen) and their sons Callum, 12, and Jayden, 9, died. Nobody in this article has been convicted of arson.

The cortege arrived shortly before 2pm. Two white children's coffins stood between the parents'. An Irish tricolour, a Waterford flag, a Liverpool shirt. Callum played for Johnville; the club has retired number 5. Parish priest Fr Gerry Chestnutt received the bodies. The coffins then went to the parish centre for the removal.

Hundreds of people filed through. RTE and the Irish Examiner confirm the guard, the funeral time - Monday 19 October at 1pm, then Kilbarry Cemetery - and that the family was known on the estate. A criminal arson inquiry remains open; a funeral does not close it.

The mill wrote "fire". Irish sources write an arson attack. Keep the distinction: the fire killed four people; who threw is a matter for police, not for a cortege.

The Johnville boys stood in yellow and black, then on a wall, waiting to go in. A junior club is not a court. It is a street carrying a teammate.

Waterford went quiet for an afternoon. Monday is the burial. The arson file sits in another building.

Image: Tdr112, Sacred Heart, The Folly, Waterford, 2025, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons; the church, not the 18 October cortege.

Sources consulted: Four Waterford family members killed in house fire arrive at church before funeral - The Irish Times; Crowds pay respects to English family at church after Waterford attack - RTE.